Numbers 15:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Remember

Ye seek not

Go a whoring

James 4:4

General references

Deuteronomy 6:8

Bible References

Remember

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.

Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

Ye seek not

If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.

Go a whoring

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

General references

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;